Classical Music Playlist, August 17, 2021
Audiences in 1917 had already come to know Sergei Rachmaninoff’s 2nd and 3rd piano concertos, his 1st & 2nd symphonies, a couple operas (including “Aleko,” admired by Tchaikovsky) and numerous works for solo piano, and as a celebrated pianist and conductor, before he re-introduced his Piano Concerto #1. Written originally in 1891 at age 17-18, he made major revisions 26 years later at about age 44 that demonstrate his growth as a composer. Audiences, he said, were polite in listening to this “new” concerto about which he said “I have rewritten my First Concerto; it is really good now. All the youthful freshness is there, and yet it plays itself so much more easily.” But, he said about audience reception of it, “They do not protest, but I can see by their faces that they would prefer the Second or Third [piano concertos]." Rachmaninoff’s (revised) First Piano Concerto, that he wished audiences appreciated more, is your Midday Masterpiece today at 2:00 pm.
6:00 a.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Prelude & Fugue "Saint Anne" in Eb major BWV 552
Los Angeles Philharmonic; Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
6:16 a.m.
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini Opus 43
Rochester Philharmonic; Christopher Seaman, conductor Jon Nakamatsu, piano
6:41 a.m.
Luigi Cherubini
L'Hotellerie Portugaise: Overture
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor
6:52 a.m.
Bill Evans
Peace Piece
Igor Levit, piano
6:59 a.m.
Felix Mendelssohn
Symphony No. 3 "Scottish": IV. Allegro vivacissimo in A minor Opus 56
San Francisco Symphony; Herbert Blomstedt, conductor
7:10 a.m.
Rebecca Clarke
Viola Sonata: I. Impetuoso
Philip Dukes, viola; Sophia Rahman, piano
7:21 a.m.
Valerie Coleman
Concerto for Wind Quintet: I. Afro
Imani Winds
7:26 a.m.
Antonin Dvorak
In Nature's Realm Overture Opus 91
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; John Farrer, conductor
7:40 a.m.
Franz Joseph Haydn
Violin Concerto No. 1 in C major HOB VIIa:1
The English Concert Simon Standage, violin
7:59 a.m.
Ambroise Thomas
MIGNON: Overture
Royal Scottish National Orchestra; Lance Friedel, conductor
8:10 a.m.
George Friederich Handel
Suite No. 14 in G major HWV 441
William Kanengiser, guitar
8:27 a.m.
Camille Saint-Saens
Gavotte
Steven Isserlis, cello; Pascal Devoyon, piano
8:31 a.m.
Leonard Bernstein
West Side Story: Somewhere Ballet Sequence
Leonard Bernstein Orchestra; Leonard Bernstein, conductor Marilyn Horne, mezzo-soprano
8:34 a.m.
William Grant Still
Symphony No. 1 "Afro-American"
Detroit Symphony Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
9:00 a.m.
Jean Sibelius
Karelia Suite Opus 11
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra; Jukka-Pekka Saraste, conductor
9:15 a.m.
Anton Stamitz
Concerto for 2 flutes and chamber orchestra in G major
Prague Chamber Orchestra; Frantisek Vajnar, conductor Jiri Valek, flute; Radomir Pivoda, flute
9:34 a.m.
Huang Huwei
Pictures of Sichuan
Li Fan, piano
9:42 a.m.
Richard Strauss
Andante for Horn Op. Posth. in C major AV 86a
Dale Clevenger, horn; Daniel Barenboim, piano
9:49 a.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Marche Slav Opus 31
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra; Neeme Jarvi, conductor
10:00 a.m.
Karl Goldmark
Im Fruhling Overture (In Spring) Opus 36
National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland; Stephen Gunzenhauser, conductor
10:10 a.m.
Alexey Shor
Seascapes for Viola and Orchestra
London Philharmonic Orchestra; David Parry, conductor David Aaron Carpenter, viola
10:30 a.m.
Gabriel Faure
Pavane Opus 50
Boston Symphony Orchestra; Seiji Ozawa, conductor Tanglewood Festival Chorus
10:37 a.m.
Agustin Barrios
Vals Tropical
David Russell, guitar
10:41 a.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Sonata No. 10 in C major K 330
Alicia de Larrocha, piano
11:00 a.m.
Henryk Gorecki
Symphony No. 3 "Symphony of Sorrowful Songs" (2nd movement) Opus 36
London Sinfonietta; David Zinman, conductor Dawn Upshaw, soprano
11:11 a.m.
Franz Liszt
Symphonic Poem No. 12: The Ideal (Die Ideale)
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra; Kurt Masur, conductor
11:38 a.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Goin' Home (melody from Dvorak's 9th Symphony)
Yo Yo Ma, cello; Kathryn Stott, piano
11:44 a.m.
Percy Fletcher
Folksong and Fiddle Dance
Royal Ballet Sinfonia; Gavin Sutherland, conductor
11:54 a.m.
Frank Bridge
Rosemary
English String Orchestra; William Boughton, conductor
11:59 a.m.
Maurice Ravel
Introduction and Allegro
Nicanor Zabaleta, harp; Christian Larde, flute; Guy Deplus, clarinet; ...and friends
12:11 p.m.
Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach
Sinfonia No. 3 in D minor HW 1/3
Les Violons du Roy; Bernard Labadie, conductor
12:20 p.m.
Joaquin Rodrigo
Concierto para una fiesta
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Sachio Fujioka, conductor Craig Ogden, guitar
12:49 p.m.
Amy Beach
From Blackbird Hills
Lara Downes, piano
12:54 p.m.
Camille Saint-Saens
Carnival of the Animals: The Swan (Le Cygne)
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Michael Stern, conductor Joshua Bell, violin
12:58 p.m.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Leonore Overture No. 2 Opus 72
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra; Yoel Levi, conductor
1:12 p.m.
Josef Suk
Humoreska Opus 7/2
David Golub, piano
1:15 p.m.
Franz Berwald
Symphony No. 3 "Sinfonie singuliere" in C major
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Ulf Bjorlin, conductor
1:46 p.m.
Koji Kondo
The Legend of Zelda Suite
London Philharmonic Orchestra
1:52 p.m.
George Gershwin
Three Preludes
XLNT Sinfonietta Jon Manasse, clarinet
2:00 p.m.
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Piano Concerto No. 1 in F# minor Opus 1
San Francisco Symphony; Edo de Waart, conductor Zoltan Kocsis, piano
2:25 p.m.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Swan Lake: Act I: Waltz Opus 20
Russian National Orchestra; Mikhail Pletnev, conductor
2:34 p.m.
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Symphony No. 5 in B minor Wq 182
Bern Camerata; Thomas Furi, conductor
2:45 p.m.
Valerie Coleman
Umoja
Imani Winds
2:49 p.m.
Antonio Vivaldi
Bassoon Concerto No. 26 in C major RV 479
English Chamber Orchestra; Philip Ledger, conductor Daniel Smith, bassoon
2:59 p.m.
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Petite Suite de Concert
Chicago Sinfonietta; Paul Freeman, conductor
3:13 p.m.
Hans Zimmer
Oogways Legacy
Studio Orchestra Lang Lang, piano
3:16 p.m.
Fritz Kreisler
La Chasse (Caprice)
Michael Rabin, violin; Artur Balsam, piano
3:19 p.m.
Arthur Bliss
A Colour Symphony
Ulster Orchestra; Vernon Handley, conductor
3:51 p.m.
Modest Mussorgsky
Pictures at an Exhibition: Great Gate of Kiev
Berlin Philharmonic; Herbert Von Karajan, conductor
3:59 p.m.
Cecile Chaminade
Concertino Opus 107
Laurel Zucker, flute; Robin Sutherland, piano
4:08 p.m.
Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach
Symphony No. 20 in Bb major HW 1/20
New Bach Collegium Musicum; Burkhard Glaetzner, conductor
4:33 p.m.
Joaquin Turina
Sonata for Guitar Opus 61
Manuel Barrueco, guitar
4:44 p.m.
William Grant Still
Suite for Violin and Piano: III. Gamin
Randall Goosby, violin; Zhu Wang, piano
4:47 p.m.
Jean-Marie Leclair
String Sonata in Bb major Opus 4/2
Musica Alta Ripa
4:59 p.m.
Daniel-Francois Auber
Rondo for cello and orchestra
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra; Roberto Paternostro, conductor Martin Ostertag, cello
5:13 p.m.
Arnold Bax
Tintagel
Royal Scottish National Orchestra; David Lloyd-Jones, conductor
5:29 p.m.
Amy Beach
From Grandmother's Garden: Heartsease Opus 97/2
Joanne Polk, piano
5:33 p.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 21 in A major K 134
Prague Chamber Orchestra; Charles Mackerras, conductor
5:51 p.m.
Francisco Tarrega
Memories of the Alhambra (Recuerdos de la Alhambra)
Xuefei Yang, guitar
5:55 p.m.
Gordon "Sting" Sumner
Valparaiso
Cantus
6:00 p.m.
Antonin Dvorak
Serenade for Strings in E major Opus 22
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
6:29 p.m.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Oboe Concerto in D minor BWV 1059
Chamber Orchestra of Europe Douglas Boyd, oboe
6:42 p.m.
Pablo Casals
Song of the Birds
City of Birmingham Cellos Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello
6:45 p.m.
John Corigliano
Lullaby for Natalie
London Symphony Orchestra; Leonard Slatkin, conductor Anne Akiko Meyers, violin
6:51 p.m.
Dmitri Shostakovich
The Storming of Red Hill (Assault on Beautiful Gorky)
BBC Concert Orchestra; Gavin Sutherland, conductor Valentina Lisitsa, piano
